Passing Through, my original screenplay, made it to the top 10% of the Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship competition 2007 (5000+ entries).

Split in Three was selected in the Eudora Welty New Plays Series at New Stage Theatre. It received a staged reading and talk-back on March 23, 2007 in Jackson, Mississippi.

Daryl is a trained actor (Northwestern University), graphic designer (University of Memphis), and college professor who began writing plays in 2000. Since then, she has been devoted to writing roles for women (of all ages and colors) that depict their spirit, strength, madness, and eccentricities (her favorite setting is the American South, where she grew up--Starkville, Mississippi--and developed her own odd sense of self).

Her plays, including Greyhounds, Georgia Out of My Mind, and Split in Three, have been produced and/or read at Truman State University, the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the New Stage Theatre (where she was selected in the 2007 Eudora Welty New Plays Series), and Off-Broadway. Her screenplay, Passing Through, is currently looking for a life beyond the page.

In 2006, she met composer Aaron McAllister and a prolific collaboration began in the form of musicals. They have three: lift, POPart: The Musical,and Blackout.

Currently, Daryl is teaching graphic design at Coastal Carolina University, freelancing as a designer, and writing in every available moment.